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` UNITED STATES PATENT EFICE.

ALWILL URBAHN, OF PATERSON, NEW JERSEY, ASSIGNOR OF ONE-HALF TO ABRAHAM G. JENNINGS, OF BROOKLYN, NEW YORK.

FIGURED FABRIC.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 289,582, dated December 4, 1883.

Application filed April 5. 1883. (Model.)

To all whom it may concern: i

Be it known that I, AEWILL UREAiiN, of Paterson, county of Passaic, State of New Jersey, have. invented an Improved Figured Fabric, of which the following is a specification.

Figure l represents a sectional elevation of the loom on whichmyimprovedfiguredfabric is made. Figs. 2, 3, 4, 5, and 6are faceviews of the fabric.

This invention relates to an open figured fabric of the kind described in my application for a patent known as Serial No. 79,687,77 which was filed on the 19th day of December, 1882.

The invention consists more particularly in carrying the gure-thread which forms the design diagonally on opposite sides of the bodythreads, which are composed of cross-woven warp-threads and of shuttle-threads, so that on each side of the fabric a separate design formed by the figure-thread will be produced, and yet only one series of figure-threads employed. The fabric is therefore reversible.

For making this fabric l may use the same kind of loom that is described in said application led December 19, 1882, and of which a portion is shownin Fig. 1.

In Fig. 1, the letters ab represent the ground warp-threads, that are taken from abeam and passed through the heddles O D, which heddles have needle-like projections d, described and more fully shown in my above-mentioned application, said projections being perforated near the ends, to admit said ground warpthreads.

H represents the shuttle, which carries the shuttle-threads i betweenthe warp threads a b, in the manner more fully indicated in Fig. 12 of my above-mentioned application. The

`figure-cordsff are carried through heddles N N and then between downwardly-projecting pillars g of the upper reed, l?. Each of the heddles N has downwardly-projecting needlelike bars d, like those of the heddles O and D, and the iigure-cords are drawn through the holes that are near the free ends of these needle-like bars. The upper reed, l?, is suspended from the framing in such a manner that it is capable of. slight lateral motion. Now, in order to lay these gure-cords according to the present invention, they are first threads c b, the open ground fabric alone `will be formed and part of the gure-cords held freely above such ground fabric. The figurecords are then carried down into the lower part of the shed and tied by one or more of the shuttle-threads to the ground fabric, and then the gure-cords are kept under the shed, as indicated in Fig. 1, and more of the ground fabric is made above them until the figurecords are again raised into the shed to be tied `by one or more shuttle-threads, and then the figure-cord is again carried over` the warpthreads c b, and so on, thus producing an open fabric which shall have part of the same figure-cords f on one face and part on the other face thereof. The result will be a different design, according to the greater or less degree of lateral motion imparted to the heddles N N during the progress of the weaving, and the design produced will invariably be a more or less broken guring, such as is Vindicated in Figs. 2, 3, 4, 5, and 6. The gure-cord can be seen throughout when the fabric is held against the light.

Fig. 3 shows the reverse of the fabric shown in Fig. 2; Fig. 5, the reverse of that shown in` Fig. 4. Where the figure-cords are bent to an angle at the time they traverse from one side of the ground fabric to the other, as in Fig. 6,

these angles should be held by the ground warp-threads c b, as indicated in Fig. 6.

I claim- As anew article of manufacture, the reversible open fabric `composed of longitudinal crosswoven ground warp-threads c b, transverse ALWTLL UEBAEN.

Witnesses:

GUsrAv SCHNEPPE, WILLY G. E. ScHUL'rz. 

